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Noun: billion-dollar grass
  1. Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
    "Billion-dollar grass provides food for migrating waterfowl";
    - Japanese millet, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet, Echinochloa frumentacea

Derived forms: billion-dollar grasses

Type of: millet

Part of: Echinochloa, genus Echinochloa

Encyclopedia: Billion-dollar grass